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Of or pertaining to rocks or strata older than the Paleozoic, in many of which the eozoön has been found.

Contemporaneous in origin; as, the equivalent strata of different countries.

Belonging to, or formed in, an estuary; as, estuary strata. Lyell.

Available for making exchanges; ratable. "An exchangeable value." J. S. Mill.

The fossil shells and other remains which animals have left in the strata of the earth.

A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.

A dislocation of the strata of the vein.

That which is feigned; an assumed or false appearance; a pretense; a stratagem; a fetch. Courtley's letter is but a feint to get off. Spectator.

olling and pressure, with lees or size, without spinning or weaving. It were a delicate stratagem to shoe A troop of horse with felt. Shak .

A stratagem by which a thing is indirectly brought to pass, or by which one thing seems intended and another is done; a trick; an artifice. Every little fetch of wit and criticism. South.

Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.

A tubelike marking, occuring in sandstone and other strata.

air advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick. If success a lover's toil attends, Few ask, if fraud or force attained his ends. Pope.

A small British marine fish (Motella tricirrata); -- called also whistler and three-bearded rockling. [Prov. Eng.]

The direction, arrangement, or appearance of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Shak.

, a kind of drop seed. Muhlenbergia diffsa. Orchard grass, pasture and hay. Dactylis glomerata. Porcupine grass, troublesome to sheep. Northwest. Stipa spartea. Quaking grass, ornamental. Briza media and maxima. Quitch, or Quick, grass, etc., a weed. Agropyrum repens. Ray grass. Same as Rye grass (below). Redtop, pastu…

n order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

A genus of fossil fishes, found in Devonian and carboniferous strata; -- so named from their round, sculptured spines.

A genus of ganoid fishes, found in strata of the new red sandetone, and the lias bone beds. Agassiz.

ope. (Zoöl.) See Guib. -- Harnessed moth (Zoöl.), an American bombycid moth (Arctia phalerata of Harris), having, on the fore wings, stripes and bands of buff on a black ground.